You gotta learn the Republican Shuffle!
We just love to roll in caviar and truffles.
Stuff your shorts with cash and give yourself a wiggle;
It helps if you're fat so you jingle and you jiggle.
Wear a three piece suit with a chain around the middle;
Let the others work while you waddle by and fiddle.

We just love the draft 'cause it lets you know who's master.
We give you the shaft and we get promoted faster.
We make all the bombs so we think that war is thrilling;
We sit on our thumbs while the poor do all the killing!
Uncle Sam's in hock and you gotta know we love it;
Our banks own the stock so your grandchildren can shove it.

You say you're getting gray and you'll starve without your pension?
For tanks we're glad to pay, but you're cut too small to mention.
We'll kick folks off their farms till we own all food production,
But big business has its charms and we'll keep all our deductions.
We'll throw you in the streets so you'll come try our soup kitchens,
Where you'll have to pray to eat and too bad if you're not Christian.

We unite the rich for whom business is religion
With crooks who make the church a business soaking pigeons.
Our churches PAC for hacks who oppose the Constitution
It's all exempt from tax with no cap on contributions.
We'd force your kids to pray 'cause our scam is such a honey.
They'll buy our talk show's hate and send us lots of money!

We'll strip-mine all the parks and our E. P. A. won't blow it.
We'll fill them in with waste and the mutants will not know it!

We stopped E. R. A. 'cause our chicks are into leather.
We beat them every day;  that's how we stay together!
Our mansions are all spacious and our cars are hotsy-totsy,
But we are closet racists with the ethics of the Nazis!
 
© Brian Salisbury
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